🚀 go-pugleaf

Don Homuth wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:41:22 -0700, pjberg@webtv.net (Paul J. Berg)
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Oregon State Representative Jeff Kropf (R-Sublimity), wants to take his
> >free-market principles right into the Oregon Legislature.  Kropf
> >suggested lawmakers be paid "based on free-market, results-oriented
> >principles." ...
>
> And having mde that statement, has abanoned his campaign and removed
> himself from further consideration as a candidate.
>
> http://statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060727/STATE/607270347


It wasn't his nutty statement that made Oregon State Representative
Jeff Kropf withdraw from the race. It you go to the link that Don
Homuth posted, you would have found the following news article.

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>From Statesman-Journal (Salem, Oregon) ~ July 27, 2006

Oregon State Representative Jeff Kropf a part-time talk-radio host on
KXL-AM, withdrew his candidacy for re-election Wednesday.

He said a new legal interpretation of federal "equal-time" rules for
political candidates on radio and television put KXL at financial risk.


"I'm not really happy about the choice I've been forced into," said
Kropf, who had been seeking his fifth term in the House of
Representatives. "I have to think about my future, and it isn't in
politics, and it's likely to be in radio."

Oregon Republican Party leaders have until Aug. 29 to name a
replacement to appear on the general-election ballot for House District
17. The district covers Sublimity, Stayton, Detroit, Gates, Idanha,
Lyons, Mill City, Lebanon, Scio and Sweet Home.

The GOP nominee will face Democrat Dan Thackaberry, a Lebanon farmer
and city council member, in the fall election.

Kropf and KXL had been operating under the assumption that the station
was obligated to provide equal time on the air for 60 days before the
general election or during 25 days before a contested primary.

But an attorney for the Oregon Association of Broadcasters recently
advised the station that equal time must be afforded from the time that
a rival candidate filed for office, Kropf said.

That meant KXL might have to provide extensive air time for Thackaberry
or a monetary sum equal to the advertising value of that air time,
Kropf said. He estimated that could approach $100,000.

Among registered voters in the district, 43 percent are Republicans and
34 percent are Democrats.
Thackaberry could not be reached for comment.

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Now, the Republican Party insiders are going to choose the party's
candidate for the general election, NOT the voters.

If you had a non-partisan system of electing office holders, and a
candidate withdrew between the primary and general election, they would
be replaced on the general election ballot by the third highest vote
getting candidate from the primary election.